Two men, one tall and one short, were to be hanged in Warsaw for spying. The short man, after having been allowed to spend three hours alone with his sweetheart, stepped on the gallows, accompanied by his lawyer, who is six feet tall. The first man was hanged, and the hangman eyed the lawyer. He seized him and began to pinion him. Just as he was fixing the noose another lawyer rushed in and the shouting, struggling attorney was saved.
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Southland Times, Issue 22096, 17 August 1933, Page 11
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